War Criminal to Receive Liberty Medal on Armistice Day
Not a joke. The mass murderer who started the catastrophic wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and who vastly expanded the US surveillance state, is set to receive the “Liberty Medal”. https://t.co/eC3dUe6816
— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) November 10, 2018
George W Bush, Starter of Two Wars, Will Receive Liberty Medal on Armistice Day
The Bushes will receive the award on November 11, Veterans Day, which in Europe is known as Armistice Day. This year's Armistice Day is a very special anniversary, because it will have been exactly 100 years since the armistice that ended the First World War on the Western Front on November 11, 1918.
It's especially ironic, then, that Bush should be given a medal that typically goes to people who end conflicts or who fight for peace, such as Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai, or overcome prejudice, such as Sandra Day O'Connor, John Lewis and Thurgood Marshall, on a day commemorating the end of what was once called "The War to End All Wars," when Bush's most notorious legacies are two colossal wars in the Middle East and the enormous expansion of the surveillance state in the US.
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The USA PATRIOT Act shredded the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures, by making large scale illegal wiretapping commonplace and creating conditions under which civil liberties for the vast majority of Americans have become extremely precarious. Bush also presided over the creation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency now at the forefront of the growing crisis with the treatment of immigrants and refugees coming from Central and South America, as well as people who have lived in the US for generations.
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In perhaps one of the strangest ironies, former Vice President Joe Biden, who served under Democratic President Barack Obama — who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only months after taking office basically as a reward for not being Bush — will be delivering to the Bushes their medals on Sunday.
Torture, renditions, illegal spying, drones murdering innocent civilians,Iraq, Libya and Syria destroyed and genocide in Yemen are the results of the Bush administration. Over 1 million people are dead because of the war of terror that this country is inflicting on the Middle East and elsewhere and Bush is going to get a gawd damned medal for it.
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Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize,
so this is just another pro forma ass kissing.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I dont think
my bladder can make it.
So many places to "mark" before I die.
A tombstone of this man makes me believe in living forever.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Take your dog.
Or borrow one. Good doggy.
For the love of god...
...somebody needs to get to that infernal ceremony with a drive-in-movie-grade film projector, and cover the whole stage with THIS:
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
And, as it turns out, this isn't ironic at all...
No shame.
Oh, and this reminds me: maybe Jimmy D or some other smart comedian should start a schtick playing on that other comedian that did the "You might be a redneck..." thing, with "You might be a neoliberal...". The material sources are as endless as the redneck ones for sure.
Hard to take.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
@peachcreek Oh look, I was wrong.
Oh look, I was wrong. Somebody in the mainstream press did note the irony. Hallelujah.
Go Reuters! No wonder the security state was putting you under surveillance a while back.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
There can no longer be any doubt
we are living in 1984 in perpetuity.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Yep
Almost there.
Just one group of scumbags celebrating another scumbag...
They have completely undermined the gravitas and intent behind the peace prize and now this.
How gross our masters are, that they would pervert even this.
Looks like the, "everybody gets a trophy" movement really does cover all juvenile activities.
And nobody is more juvenile than our elected officials.
Hmm. Now I wish I was rich enough to fund a study, have a group of middle schoolers vote on all the things congress votes for and see how they differ.
I cant help but think they would make better decisions/votes than our representatives...
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Truth is stranger than fiction
It is a Mad, Mad World...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Boy that poster brings back memories doesn't it?
Seemed like we went from one outrageous thing to another during his tenure. No wonder so many of us fell for the busllshit Obama sold us. And look. We're doing the same damn thing again with Trump. Almost seems deliberate doesn't it? Keep us distracted while they sell the country out from under us.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
the Iraq invasion...
blew my mind. Still does. Learning that Saddam was selling his oil in euros and effected the exchange rate from something like 0.85 to 1.15 dollar/euro explained much.
The EU is working on a by pass to the SWIFT system to trade euros for Iranian oil.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks for this sd. We must not forget.
...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Miriam Adelson is getting one too
apparently for being a big donor.
It's so shocking that it's hilarious.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Adelson is getting the medal of freedom
So is Orrin, Elvis and Babe Ruth.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
This is repulsive.
The fact that it's likely being reported unironically in the mainstream press goes interestingly with Democrats believing so fervently in that same mainstream press.
Of course, maybe the mainstream press will register the irony of it. Maybe monkeys will fly out of my ass and fly me to the moon, too.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Enjoy your trip if they do
Don't forget to write.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Gross.
(nt)
This shit is bananas.
President AWOL gets The Liberty Medal on Armistice Day
Irony is dead.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Veterans are outside protesting against Bush getting this
One woman tried to get inside and tell Georgie that he is a war criminal.
Their commitment to veterans. Yeah right. I'm betting that this was happening when Bush was president.
Senators seek answers for military families living in decrepit houses with mice and mold infestations
Housing for military families has been outsourced to private companies and if they are living in decrepit houses they have no recourse to make companies fix their homes. They have no rights like we would such as withholding rent payments. But congress has finally written a letter asking for answers. Asking for answers not raising hell and making them fix the damn problems!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Jesus Fucking Christ
We are going to need a lot of shoes.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
@Anja Geitz +10000
+10000
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Took the words right out of my mouth. The Memory Hole
is straining itself revved up beyond overdrive.
Biden up there no doubt all smiles and guffaws and back-slapping, recruited by The Empire to present a medal to George Fucking Bush. My head is short-circuiting.
Aren't there just too many example lately of this kind of blatant, brazen, in-your-face, "You thought you lived in a democracy? Ha! Suck it up, peon. This is the way it's been and always will be. Now go and bow down in thanks that you're about to get some crumbs from our palatial table."
And yes, CStMS, where are those in the media who haven't been indoctrinated to point out the fucking obvious irony? And what about those who have a shred of temerity left to express a deep sense of indignation and arrive at the unavoidable shattering epiphany of what it really means - which is that the whole Duopoly is a charade and that these puppets we're conditioned into thinking work for the public are part of a quaint myth we've been brainwashed into thinking is our salvation - and that we're really on our own?
The tin soldiers and Nixon have already come.
"We're finally on our own." Then, as Neil wrote, and now, as it hasn't changed. Or more probably has never been anything but that stark and cold reality.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
I perversely wonder
What this award actually means to Georgie boy.
God, there's a political pretense waiting to be satirized, eh? We could write a scathingly wry piece where we hand out oxymoronic awards to all kinds of people meaning the opposite of what they are.
Gallows humor they call it, right?
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
@Mark from Queens Eurasia is our ally,
Eurasia is our ally, Mark. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Didn't you know George W. Bush is our friend?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver